The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Burglars Ransack House Near SYLVIA
mia, but Fail to Get Much Valuable
Booty A Mob Visits a Negroes
House Near Cuthbert During the
Night and Kills Him.
GEORGIA
TaIbotton is to have bank C. W. Kim
brough will conduct it as private institu-
ton.
A Montgomery company have asked the
city Council of Americas for franchise
permitting them 10 construct street rail
way.
William Ruan, the largest export cotton
buyer in Hawkinsville, died at the Scarboro
House on Thursday night of last week. His
death was caused by hemorrhage of the
lungs, and he was confined to his bed only
few days.
A MANNED negro, who gives his name as
Randall Claiborne, Is III the suburbs just
north of Columbus in a very helpless condi-
ton. For several days he has been lying on
the porch of a vacant house He has only
one foot and the other appears to be 50
krost bitten that he cannot walk.
The three negroes who were arrested at
Americas on the charge of forging time
tickets on the Buena Vista and Ellaville
railroad were given a trial yesterday. Two
Anderson Murray, was bound over in the
sum of 500 to the Superior Court.
On Sunday night of last week party of
drunken negroes engaged in a row on the
.'Shoo fly train, on the Central railroad,
while it stopped at Rocky Ford and num-
Der of shots were fired, two taking effect
in the persons of two of the participants.
One of them was also terribly cut with
razor in addition to being shot. The party
who did the shooting and cutting escaped.
After years of patience and labor, l.
Branch, of Adairsville, has completed two
machines; one moving machine for clover,
the other a clover header. The former does
away with the shuttle movement in scythe
blade so common on all moving machines
Knives working on the principle of scissors
are substituted. which cut smoothly and
even. The other machine takes off the top
of the clover, which is thrashed, and saves
the stem crop, which is considered a great
economy.
At Macon and in Bibb county the drought
is dreadful For several DAYS past the
weather has been clo.A and sultry, and peo-
pie have not been able to rest at night ON
account of the suffocating heat Cool
breezes spring up during the night, but the
morning sun brings the same old dead heat.
McElmmeny's mill has almost stopped run
ming on account of low water, and other
mills complain of the same trouble. Crops
and grass are burning up for the lack of
rain. If the drought is not broken in a few
days the cotton crop viii be DONE
Warrant Clerk Harrison, of the Execu-
tive department, was asked Wednesday
what effect the Governors absence would
have upon bills passed by the General AS
sembly, the question being put in conne..
tfon with the constitutional five days
time allowed him to sign bills. Capt
Harrison said his absence would not affect
the matter at all, that if any bills were
passed during his absence, they could not
be delivered to the Governor until he re-
turned and he would then have the usual
time in which to consider them. He sup
posed that the bills would be retained by the
authorities of the General Assembly until
his return. There was no hitch, or delay or
danger at all in the absence of the Governor
at this time. Gov. Gordon is expected TO
return home on Tuesday of next week.
Rachel May, white girl of fourteen sum-
mers, was arrested at Johnsonville Tuesday,
charged with la, ceny. AT a preliminary
trial she was convicted upon evidence purely
circumstantial, and upon failure to give
bond for $50 was taken TO Baxley for i'm
prlsonment IN the county jail to await trial
in the Superior Court. The people OF Bax-
ley had never heard of the girl before but
felt that it would be an outrage to allow one
so young and fair TO be incarcerated in their
a
substantial. The news of her arrest and
presence in Baxley created considerable ex-
citement, and in very short time fifteen of
the most prominent citizens of Baxley vol
unteered to stand the bond and set the vic
tim free. Several of the lawyers who were
professionally incapacitated to serve as
bondsmen volunteered to defend her when
the trial occurred.
Monday morning a special train was
enc inn A..
beat the a. m. train from Albany. 1t bore
some of the masnates of the road. About
two miles from Americas section master
Thomas Gresham hves and about that hour
he had started his hands on a pole car
toward Andersonville. He heard the train
as he entered the cut and jumping off the
car started ahead with a flag, telling his
hands TO reverse and go back; as he
reached the curve in the cut he saw the APP
preaching train and tagged it down. The
engineer blew his whistle and reversed the
breaks, but as he rounded the curve he saw
the pole car across the track, and the hands
trying to lift it off 1t was impossible to
check up, and the engine struck the car
tearing it TO pieces. the negroes got out of
the way. No one was hurt and the special
reached Americas a few minutes ahead of
the regular morning train.
On the plantation of Fab Sheppard, five
miles southeast Of Cuthbert. a tenant house
occupied by Adam Mallory and family, was
surrounded Tuesday night by a body of
armed and masked men, who fired upon it,
and in the exit of its occupants, old man
Adams was killed by eight bullets piercing
his body. One of his sons was shot in the
head, and a daughter in the knee, but
neither of these is seriously wounded. The
others escaped unhurt 1t is supposed from
the action Of the mob that the lives of the
whole family were to have been taken. The
origin of the trouble grew out of the diff
Guilty Buck Smith and son had with Ranse
Mallory, a son of Adam, a few
days ago, in which Mr.. Smith was depu-
TIED to arrest the negro on a warrant for
assault and battery on his son. The negro
resisted arrest and was shot by Smith
The affair was settled between the parties
themselves and no further difficulty was APP
pretended but two of the Negroes brothers
from Quitman county went over and created
more bad blood by their threats. On Mon
day night gang of what was supposed to
be the Negroes friends fired upon Smiths
house but did no damage Smiths friends,
for no one else but his friends would have
taken part must have foun9 out that the NAL
lory negros were the persons, or suspected
it, and they organized and did the lawless
deed as above reported. The coroner's jury
revealed nothing new.
On Sunday evening of last week daring
robbery was committed at the residence of
John ErawlaV about four miles north nf